September 30th.
The news that the only remaining immortal vine in the world was about to bear fruit was brought out by a young Taoist priest who had narrowly escaped death and was besieged by more than a dozen dragons. He managed to escape back to the mountain gate by using the Divine Concealment Technique at the cost of burning his divine soul. Although he escaped back, the young Taoist priest had lost all his cultivation, was seriously injured and on the verge of death, and was already a cripple.
Upon receiving this news, Liu Lingying immediately wanted to go to the East Sea herself. However, the sect leader of Yuandao Sect temporarily calmed her down. After careful consideration, he sent the message to several Central Plains Daoist sects, gathered some outstanding young disciples from these sects, along with two or three highly skilled elders, and led them to the East Sea.
The Buddhist monks noticed that seventy or eighty Taoist disciples had set out in large numbers, so each sect sent out a dozen or so disciples to quietly follow them.
Liu Lingying led a group of Taoist disciples to the sky above the nameless island. Looking down from the air, they saw colorful seashells on a small open space in the center of the island reflecting colorful light under the sun. Surrounded by these colorful seashells, the immortal vines in the pond had green branches, colorful leaves, and white fruits, making them look exceptionally beautiful.
From a distance, the white fruits could be seen to faintly reveal iridescent colors, and they looked like they would be ripe soon.
Liu Lingying was excited and immediately tried to dive down.
"Uncle-Master Ying!" Liang Yihan, who had been following Liu Lingying, grabbed her arm as soon as he saw her condition and said urgently, "Uncle-Master, be careful of the Dragon Clan's ambush!"
At that time, the seventy or eighty Taoist disciples floated in the air on their flying swords. The various flying swords trailed long tails of light and connected together, forming a large patch of seven-colored light in the air.
"What kind of ambush is there?" Liu Lingying frowned and said unhappily, "Young man Han, take a closer look. Are there any signs of human activity on that island?"
Liang Yihan looked down at the island on the ground. The island was quiet and deserted, but... it was too quiet. There wasn't even the usual bird calls or animal roars. The silence was eerily quiet.
His brows furrowed slightly, and after staring at it for a while, he suddenly sensed a faint demonic aura around the pool.
But Liu Lingying was already impatient. She loved studying alchemy and usually stayed in the alchemy room all day long. Now that the main ingredient of the elixir of immortality, the Immortal Fruit, was right in front of her, she could no longer remain calm.
"Ying..." Liang Yihan was about to remind Liu Lingying to pay attention to that trace of magic power, but he had only said one word when Liu Lingying had already driven her flying sword down quickly.
"Uncle Ying!" Liang Yihan's expression changed.
In the blink of an eye, the flying sword beneath Liu Lingying's feet had already rushed to the island. Liang Yihan pondered for a moment with a grim expression, and could only raise his voice and say, "Fellow senior uncles and senior brothers, please go down, but it is best to travel in groups and be careful in everything you do!"
Having said that, he took the lead and rode his sword down to the island.
The remaining Taoist disciples exchanged glances in twos and threes, then descended together.
The sword light flashed swiftly, and a group of seventy or eighty people quickly flew to the island. The group landed around the pool, and their vision went from dark to light. Then, they were all separated and alone, with no companions by their side.
If others were present, they would have seen the seventy or eighty people land on an area roughly ten miles in circumference around the pond. When they were about ten feet above the ground, a faint black light screen suddenly appeared where they landed. Each person descended onto the island from within that light screen as if breaking through the water's surface and leaping into it, disappearing in the blink of an eye amidst ripples on the screen.
The Taoist disciples landed on the island and disappeared. Not long after, more than thirty monks, including Shi Chan, arrived in the sky above the island. These monks did not know why they had come, but simply followed the Taoist disciples. Therefore, they did not carefully observe the island from the air. After seeing the Immortal Vine in the distance, they curiously landed.
Like the Taoist disciples, the monks also disappeared one by one after landing.
Shortly after the more than one hundred people from the Buddhist and Taoist sides disappeared beneath the black light curtain, Li Molin, Liuli, and the other two demons broke through the light curtain and flew up, floating above it.
Apart from Ahua, all three people and two demons wore a small black flag about the size of an adult's palm around their waists. The flagpole was only three inches long, and the flag was triangular with a strange symbol drawn on it in bright red blood.
Floating in the air, Liuli looked down and saw sixty-seven demons holding banners, standing motionless around the pool, covering an area of about ten miles. Another hundred or so demons moved about within the formation set up by these sixty-seven. The hundred or so righteous disciples who had entered the formation were now scattered, most of them looking around blankly. Liuli watched as the hundred or so demons, wearing the same small black banners as her, silently approached the scattered righteous disciples, who seemed completely oblivious to their presence.
Under such circumstances, the righteous disciples had suffered heavy casualties in just a short time.
After watching for a while, Liuli clicked her tongue and said, "Li Molin, what kind of formation is this? How come you demons can see these righteous people, but they can't see you demons?"
Li Molin looked at the scene in the formation with satisfaction and replied, "This formation is the Divine Ghost Formation of my Demon Clan. The formation on the ground was set up by eighteen clansmen at the late stage of Demon Heart, holding Demon God Banners, and forty-nine clansmen at the late stage of Demon Thought, holding Ghost Soldier Banners. The small flags we wear are the Bright Eyes Flags. Only by wearing such flags can we see within the formation."
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